In a one-two legal punch, Trump faces new jeopardy from sex scandals
by Mark Z. Barabak and Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
Mar 21, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump faced new legal and political jeopardy Tuesday as a former Playboy Playmate and alleged paramour sued to break a confidentiality agreement and a judge rejected his move to quash a lawsuit stemming from a charge of sexual assault.
The developments, coming on opposite coasts, promised many more months - if not years - of legal skirmishing, keeping Trump's personal conduct at the fore of this election season and complicating GOP efforts to protect their congressional majorities in November.
The White House and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill responded with silence.
Even as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III probes Russian interference in the 2016
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